Hiram Johnson

Hiram Johnson (2 September 1866-6 August 1945) was Governor of California (R) from 3 January 1911 to 15 March 1917 (succeeding James Gillett and preceding William Stephens) and the US Senator from California from 16 March 1917 to 6 August 1945 (succeeding John D. Works and preceding William F. Knowland).

Biography
Hiram Johnson was born in Sacramento, California in 1866, the son of former Congressman Grove Lawrence Johnson. He became a lawyer in 1888, and he moved to San Francisco in 1902, becoming an assistant district attorney and a progressive politician. From 1911 to 1917, he served as Governor of California, running on an anti-Southern Pacific Railroad platform and adding initiative, referendum, and recall to the state government. In 1912, he co-founded the Bull Moose Party, and he was Theodore Roosevelt's vice-presidential candidate in the presidential election that year. In 1916, he was elected to the US Senate, and he opposed Japanese immigration. He was an extremely popular Senator, and he emerged as a leading voice of isolationism during the Interwar period. In 1932, he supported Franklin D. Roosevelt's candidacy for President due to their shared liberal views, and he supported many of his New Deal policies (despite coming to oppose him later). He died in office in 1945.